The first annual Lansing Fall Fest will take place Saturday, November 9th, 2013. This fall celebration will feature Michigan craft beer, cider and mead. The goal of Lansing Fall Fest is to raise awareness of the Michigan craft beer, cider and mead industry while raising money for our selected charity Child and Family Charities. (www.childandfamily.org/)

Despite common assumption, hard cider is not solely reserved for the autumn season. Vander Mill Cider produces a variety of hard ciders at its Spring Lake facility – year round. This summer, as you hit the Pure Michigan road, consider packing some Vander Mill for sharing with family and friends at the resort, cottage or campsite.

February 2013 brought the 4th Annual Winter Microbrew & Music Festival to Traverse City, MI with plenty of food, music, and brews. Over 50 breweries from around the world featured over 200 different beers, ciders, and meads spread out among the festival’s several tents. Not just a beer festival, the focus also included dozens of bands including one tent featuring exclusively polka for the entire duration and also a multitude of food vendors offering everything from venison specialities to hot dogs, veggie chili, gyros, ribs and more.

Motor City Brew Tours has taken over a floor of the Detroit Princess Riverboat to host a Michigan Beer Tasting. This event is a special Father’s Day afternoon boat cruise on Sunday June 17 from 2pm to 6pm. Motor City Brew Tours will have 25 different Michigan beers to sample from Arbor Brewing Company, Arcadia Brewing Company, Dark Horse Brewing Company, New Holland Brewing Company and North Peak Brewing Company. There will also be samples of Vander Mill Hard Cider, B. Nektar Mead and Valentine Vodka onboard. Everything available to sample at this event will be made in Michigan. The goal of this event is to expose people to the many great beers and spirits that are being produced in Michigan.

Debuted at Winter Beer Fest in February with temperatures in the low 20s; and now, just a few weeks later with West Michigan temperatures aproaching 80 degrees, Vander Mill has already begun expanding hours and making the new beers (as well as hard ciders and apple wines,) available to be enjoyed in their cider garden.